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(March 20, 2007) - The Center will present “Traditional Lakota Games Activities & Demonstrations” at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 31, with Lakota artist Mike Marshall of Rosebud. The program will be free and open to all ages. Marshall will teach participants how to make a game. He will demonstrate a number of games which were an essential part of Lakota life before the games were prohibited in the late 19th century. Some games were played only by adults or only by children. Some were for girls, some were for boys. Games could have social, economic or spiritual significance and many generated humorous stories. All games promoted skills and values important to the Lakota, including competition, sportsmanship and risk-taking.
The museum houses the collections of Fr. Eugene Buechel, S.J., who lived with the Lakota on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud reservations for 50 years. Thanks to Lakota participants and non-Lakota researchers, including Fr. Buechel, many game pieces and written descriptions are preserved today.
The Buechel Museum collection contains
games given to Fr. Buechel by Lakota people
and pieces he commissioned from skilled
Lakota artisans as part of his work to help
preserve Lakota culture. Unlike
preservationists who sent their collections
to distant museums, Fr. Buechel’s materials
have remained at St. Francis on the Rosebud
Reservation. The Sioux City Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center, exit 149 off I-29, is a private, non-profit institution built and sustained by Missouri River Historical Development, Inc. (MRHD). Admission, all programs, exhibits and activities are free.
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Marshall crafted game pieces now on display at
the Center, including Tashiha Unpi
“Catching Deer Bones”; Icaslohe Econpi,
“Bowls”; and Hutanacute, “Winged
Bones.” The pieces are based on game
artifacts preserved at the Buechel Memorial
Lakota Museum at St. Francis Mission, St.
Francis, S.D.